The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 1, 1903, Page 2

N\DAY CALL HE SU ocked down, bound and gagged and He was the purchasing agent of the Hose came down from the foothills with Tom overtook one of them, snatched his his mouthplece. gers widout any cote. be a e while Treasur- ures and Tim Shelby 3 k- e e Httle e T e our Tesree rganised. three &roups. .of .The doctor pronguneed - his . injuries three kindred spirits,_and an old fddier, wooden leg. off, and knocked him down. placed on a pile of dry fence rails. They sidiary ring which Legree had organized P ¢ nyhow thicves, composed of the officials needed dangerous but not necessarily Tatal fo make the muslc. He 4 oited to have Hose's mountain boys were Crowding ge¢ fire to the pile and left him to burn to hold the real estate forfeited for taxes to Derfect the thefts in every branch of Charlie and Dick watched with Eve that a dance and plenty of hiquor fresh from 1uund Tom, with thelr pistols In theif ., geatn ¢ attracted the attention of until a rise in value would bring b the government, while he retalaed the night until nearly midnight. Nelse open: ;‘“* mountain-dew district. But Tom put ’“f}‘"‘); o » 1¢ we shoot-Lr. Grabam, who was passing. He got milions of profit. ‘Loey had stoiea from . leadership of the federated- groups, The ‘eduhis eyes, and saw the eager face of his foot down on It. What shall we do, Tom? 1f we B x - tne State treasury the money to €ay Treasurer, who wad an honest man, was the boy, his eves vet red from cryl No dancin’ in my house, Hose, and no we may kill Annle. i to him m time to save him. = . stripped of power by a epecial act. 3 “1 ain’t dead, honey!"” he moaned. licker,” sald Tom with cmpnasis. “I'm ~ “Shoot, men! My ‘God, shoot! There *‘You don’t say sol” tulize this compauy. Where Lt was pos The capitol ring merely picked up the +On! Nelse, I'm so glad!’ a deacon In the Baptist church. I used are things worse than death “Im sorry, dom, I'm so weak this Swie to eXace & cash ransom, laey ai - odds and ends about the capito! buliding. “Doan you. belleve. 1 gwine to die! I to be young and as good lookin' as You, They needed no urging. Like young ti- morning 1 couldn't come to see you I Ways looK it and cauceieu e LaX gid = They tefurnished the leglslative halls. }w;!m;) " Bit t‘?rg wid dem niggers ‘fore 4 boy, hlut T've done wu;x":‘hem }hlnn- gers they sprang across the orchard o know your poor wife is heartbroken. "h fx‘.“:r;"fisuff(»r o 4 They Shent omar$200000 for furniture, and 1 leab dis”wonl'. i ou're goin’ to take my little gal NOW. ward the woods whence came the sound “Yes, sir, she is, and it cuts me to the BAGH BUce o iceruailavmm GE pols when }‘ .as mf,,m,s?d its value was Nelse spoke feebly, but there ‘was a I want you to omit your foolishness and of the laughter of the negroes. quick when 1 think that I gave the or- UCs. » b . & cash P found to be $17.000 at the prices they ac- Way about his saying it that boded no be a man." “Stop de schreeechin’! cried the leader. cers to the boys to shoot. But, preacher, i1ney tried their best to get a cash ra tually paid for it. The ring stole $i70,000 E0od toghis enmies, and Eve was sllent.” “I will, Tom, I will. She 1s the prettiest «She nebber get dat gag out now 1'd a killed her with my. own hand if [ SOm uf ten thousana dokars for ;““v:j“ » cn_ thi jtem alone, As_ Nalse dmproven, Bvea WA e A e A D this world, and to «Too emart fur de po” white trush dis Couldn't ‘a’ saved her no other way. Tad of Heme sut_ Loe e SRy .o appro $300. ore. e truf m i e 8 over again a il Y a . . sy 3 'r'?"' {Lr;vx;\rnqum::;onndr?:« anam?nl'?&‘!m"a‘ff-“' rTP;; next day »)he yfm}' ‘r? the Stfxesi: <l>ne right down now to the hardest work I t".}‘_,‘irfe °,-,,m’1“:,‘.,’$‘i§ 3::; out like a sin- tt W AINIS ey oo bheloy as :n ok ‘:x: .LUmLulr:‘ Land = the negroes who had threatened Nelse. ever did in my life.” gle rej ! P B vou; I'd have done the #0U LMprovemcic \ g A i With this they built a booth around the Of B S 5 d y ”» gle report. Three more! and three more I don’t blame you; I ave ne it . ter 1A 1d nome af statue of Washington at the end of the J?:';n‘,}.' Ifglbal:li' dGnslm\ dis mawnin’, s ‘That's the way to mkkm.v, bok:;- u%fl‘d There was a wild scramble. Taken com- same thing. 1 can't come to see you to- DWREF ul fari drter fas I Capitol ‘and estabiished a bar with fine WAMT be agked . . Tom puiting his hand on Hose's shoulder, pietely by surprise, the negroes fled in day, Tom; Lll be down to your house to: “({"Co. o vamn hope that rellef co K, liquors and cigars for the free use of the ‘op Bin, ke a “g‘ress flrb:‘"_nex ’»\"e stgralr;‘s - ou’ ll! huv?( enous_:l do these hard confusion. Four lay on the ground. TwWo morrow a few minutes before we start oo "o any cter. The red f members and their friends. They kept it SF Wt RS 5 UEIERE, DAL BB IO and . They n Make & livin {cture, in'that Yire dead, one mortally wounded and for the cemetery. I must getup for din- COTE. LXO O s auctvaeer flutiered gr ered ar open every day and night during thelr VR, BUPRE M S 0 e She humb) - thoro Dafore Tameimiive Bl cuitulad RRRY. . WL B Yy il iot, dagé attacking o "thousand three aunared and twe o TEign, and in & sulte of fooms in the Cap- boutdled his head sysinst = sfone. 'Sho "humbulehiethe as they stood there, DTS lats in their bodles. There in the midst thesd troops: /THeydl moCCSEeuigny R - ey estabiished & brothel. From the ¥OuM have choked Nin to death, Tad fiot ; the SERSERELE The voung Bide WS ‘of the hep lay the ungansclous girl. Ssll your piacdto-dany. HHE public square J00r% AR LG Sots s me we n their {avorites on the floor e Ione, ‘man, Tac doi’ ds wiker St e AR S - tolie of Himselt & she hurt?” cried a mountaln boy. You g0 home and cheer up YOUF wife. ‘.., P i 1;“ g st oo S God whenever he looked into the face of his ot tell; take her to the house, 1“';{ 1 HU“{ bed. The doet his that had been & the war, or Laey B more thap $000 in any one year. “You're committi v o as s quick.” “He's still in bed. e doctor S : soid their corn and provisions, & 3 - year it cost $480,000. Legree drew thou- v You're committing murder, woman ' blushing uate. “The mother was Semuerc 1hey laid her across the bed in the skull is broken in cue place, but hell be ¢, ih : 8 sands of warrants on the State for imag- go 0" e - e . . v sy 100m that had been made sweet and tidy over it In a few weeks.” ¢ ries, : 4. fence and tore down through a corn ter's beauty and happiness, her heart all e nary persons, There were eight pages In as though purened by s hundeed o qulver with the momories of her own ~fOF. the bride and groom. The mother Tom hobbled back to his house, shak Winier’ vegnal s use. “He drew pay for 165 pages o Mow ad then slancing over his wedding day, seventeen vears before, bent over her quickly with a light Just Lands with scores of silent men on the - E 1d. to sel A Vel i Te vas P e v where the blue veins crossed in her del ken s fund for immediate use in brib- *iPL.C o0 her B s s JAhinking of the mortow when J e temple. there was a round hole from _‘The preacher crawled to his desk and awmakers to carry through NS ¢he perpetrators of this outrage on Nelse. his eves filled with tears. whkich a scarlet stream was running Wrcte this note to the young officer in X ¢ his most effective 10 Justice. He ldentified six of them The Rev. John Durham had pronounced CGwn her white thrcat SEIUNanS vl Ihe P . L EING WE NS Ty © positivcly. They were arrested, and when them man and wife and hurried away to , Without a word the mother brought My Dear Captain: 8 ands. e the tssye Put on trial immediately discharged by see some people who were sick. The old Tum, showed it to him, and then fell into _*in the interest of peace and order I t ‘of hogs ey _passca. Lille antDor Ssu¢ the judge, who was himself a member of fiddler was doing his best. Hose and his his arms and burst inte a flood of tears. Would advise you to telegraph to Inde - vingly about the door e = 000,000 in bonds, and actually {ssued ‘he Jeague that had ordered Nelse whip- bride were shaking hands with their _“Dont"cry so. Annle! It might have been Lendence for two companies of wiite Tes- x planted them with 0 tole $14.000000, and never bullt one peq. Triends, and the bovs were trying to tease Worse. Let us thank God she was saved ulars to come immediately on a special, (ears arvund iesvlate cabi Nuw £ thiy TOOLC t raiiroa ? ¥ % . s s the bridegroom with hoary old jokes. from them brutes.” and that you start your negro troups o d then ok down M , When Legree's movement was at 1§ Tom Camp's daughter was now in her Suddenly a black shadow fell across Hose's friends crowded around Tom double quick marching order to mect work and cry she would id Mile- vigh tide, Ezra Perkins sought Uncle gixteenth year and as plump and win- the doorway. The fiddle ceased, and now With tear-stalned faces. them. " There will be & thousand armed o it dy occuple 1 wyer one night in beh#f of a pel some a lassie, her Scotch mother de- every eye was turned to the door. The ‘“Tom, you don’'t know how broke up men in Hambright by sundown, and no . back and fort v of his pending in the House. lared, as-the Lord ever made. She was burly figure of a big negro trooper from We all are over this. Poor child; we did Pawer on earth can prevent the extermin oved all le jonquils I was seated by his’ table counting ation of that negro company If they at- wks Irom the borgers of the garden = 1 P - it N7 ht of a candle three big piles cof tack them. I wijl do my best to prevent waik, and reset 1 @ New garden. 3 s “Miles 5 B further bloodshed, but I can do nothing She moved her siraw fet and rauspber- you seem well pleased with the it these troops remain here to-day. perries and gooseverries, aud wet her . w to-night sald Ezra gleéfully. spectfully, JOHN DURHAM.' fali cabbage J - three weeks she EE 3 brudder, you see dem piles e The commandant acted on the advice had trar desolate red clay lot e nlinng I o M immediately. 5 g it & sm@ug garden. Sae had watered ol N every piant vally, and 1 n had watched = acked his lips and grinned It was the week following be- her wilh growing wos nd love. oy n ar. § fore the sales began. There was no _ “Ole woman, yuu're an angei!” he cried, 8 Weil, brudder, I tells you. T ben sol help for it. The town and county “if God had ne down from the g cried Scoggins ¢ =8 1n my:life cbusfoms awd were doomed to a ruin more complete skies she cuuldn’t have done any more.” Jut’s e fust time I ebber got de money and terrible than the four years of war . ad B p Uncle Pete dreamed that night tnat had brought. Independence had been The problem which pressed heaviest of Congr passed a law extending the saved by a skillful movement of Gereral all on the preucher's heart in this crisis . “‘republican form of gov- Worth, who sought an interview with Was how tu save srs. Gaston's home. = Nor Carolina for forty when his couneil first is: d r it At Pl s sold nex. week, the siature never ad- levy of thirty per cent for mur 1 "’ aju to his wife, “sne will purposes. surVive Legislature finally closed, and “Mr., Legree, let's understand one an- I know it. She is sinking eyery day. revel which lasted ail nignt, other,” said the general. It breuks my heart to look at her.” Scog 1 bankrupted the State, destroyed “Ali right, I'm a man of reason.” “What can we ao?" s 1ds and reased 1ts aeot “A bird in hand is werth two | “I'm_ su 1 ¢ t tell We've given o forty-two miiions of dui- bush!” & we y earth e ¢ the : addiug one cent to its “Every time, general nes ou k I ven't another cu “Well, call off y r dogs piece of Jeweury, or even an oid <l £ ne: - des ed a municipal and your order for a thirty per ce “ine tax ana sts may amg [ it the towns, cliies and I'll raise $5 $175. There isn mar this ¢ s, having passed a biil vacat you in two da: who has money, or 1'd b . d city ofhioes “Make it $u,00 and it's a bargain 1t it L nad u age My s rol of Ham- “Agreed.” w do 1§ i Ly it for The general raised twenty d 1 tell you what you m)shtl do,” his lUttie the city, went North wit sudd med. [elegraph home - remaining thirty tho 3 ia Héston that you ( Legree and his briganc his Wil accept 10 Suppiy ransom and moved on to the next town Puipit touse last s these assessmen Poor Hambright was but a scrawny lit- sfey Wik you g It cost the United States Government tle village on a red hill wi big may be possible, but woere am 1 to p 0 1 3 to pay the army values to be saved, and y in the ney for a telegram and a t Legrees and their terest the commercial icket Ay ey were thus estab. auctioneer lifted his hammer Surely you can borrow some herel Bk s Fepbiioun - . “4 don 't Know a man in the couaty who the South, CHAPTER XVIII Bas e \én go to the young commandant of IR XVII THE RED. FLAG OF THE AUCTION- e A iiow o & Bty R irate LEER X ¢ 4" to be tu -d‘u\:\'l‘ o 4 3 “COND REIGN OF TERROR The excitement through w he can pay the .taxes was Rev. John Camp had passed in the h s infamous negro go rhux 5 M daughter, and stirring n mm to loan you A necied with it, had been more tha m and the ticket g & feeble body could endure. He had zed his hat and swricken with paroxysms of pain and ! as possible to the ca - b Paus from h old wounds. For young capta neard his st wi stroye wueat crop 3 days and nights he had suffered [ 5y & e blis speakabie agonies. He had borr ey 1 LIENC Worse pain witl ral indifference. atog tue co8 skeer 1 his wife leaning te -3 K aln over every hom over I i g oy o i - A “Oh all right, Annie bureria recently o ; ou studyin’ abodt ther v 1 m pou £ . T e wus awiul times, but & g what weTe guin’ through ’ )rd knows best, but 1 can't pie L 1 r “"“ = -~ , e gl Foeie hlth son't talk any more. You're too b A g P < ist git up, Ann Got to git out o aring - w. ‘Lue sneriff’s goin' t 1 us ou paused, his eyes grew tor n e thns I want to sorter look ‘round s, and he looked thoug < Tve ten- vetore we go.'" blu ntain peaks t sy ), Jeining on his wife's arm, he hob- range in the distar g~ bled @round the puace saying good-by tops were lost o the < ey to its 1amiliar objecis. They stopped be- ool = the garuen gat dreamed of Jiuer n o 1 thore, Tom, [ can't stand the South tw 1 n ‘“ . t garden l've worke 8o h . e & dler ks -3 Iy e e yeurs, anu that's give rs ne An s B the s to eat, and never f hE he wo - v oéd with the bur- year round, i just feel like itll raw s a into the J 8: ‘A ’ n usn- ear m. t out fan Mounta s and fought t y ¥ 3% Themaaie “Do you il the day we set out these White man South was n = g trecs, Annie ar u, my n pur gal aled N 0. J0Es 46 bed and holdin’ em fur me while I packed t A 2 = A 3l et 5 i ‘em, and toid you how P -~ aunvunced ,mdrlllo\n every twig of 'em. o g AW R LD A ail helped me in times of need A Sap SRR like that crd, it's nard to give it up!” she w o h L Keep back the tears, o OF sece I me, here {s some. now, ole woman, you mustn't &V dreamed egro 1 u up. found v You're scrong and weil dom cation, egro Cini Iroit uour this mui. ahot to pieces and e 2 on, now bein no ur‘nl: But the Lord still iive 8t S = i get this pluce back. The Lord's & ‘m - fl:“l\‘{ ;r]\;fl: 4‘dmlr~rs trying our faith. He thinks mebbe I'il ¢ 1 - K Ax L SEARRC the compaspensen “You think we can ever get it back Over 20000 So K s 3 at this anunymous ietier and “General Worth sent me word he "f'“,:;"""“‘ g d e X coulan’t do anything now, but to let it S’ &M asalus v h a faflure after all. am 1? g0 and zk‘”‘x: f”-" T N The Bee lu.l thi - ght that would help you,” she % - Ay Tha . sol¢ e you, irely the Lord can't let us starve 1 can eat breakfas \arve! I reckon not! ihe foxes haye Lillied aro . the Sou g Mg Frakfast on ' tha holes, the birds of the air nests, but the LS Infamy wa . R e ing “ % 7y 2 Son of man had not where to lay hi & 16 desp - Poracr tnis letter out beside hi head, but he never starved. No, God's ngton, ~who waited : 4 and rercad it ax he aic, o heaver. . i) thost 2 yund it in t ) - yis “.:-:neu with a strange t\}\nm[“ki": !mm Rhast hate: Mok fust er the death of a . i - TR S o ey, built _her nest to rear a second brood y » s fipe, Isn't it? You for the e e captain's d i 5B Lot u o e season was seated on the top- T ant BB et e as s Tast branch of & cedar near the house. . e g . to clean this county of treason and b . 8 o tootgh ne wuuld fill wigeful king out on t “ ~ heaven and earth wit Ty i IREETL, & out ¥ ebels and fix the will be one traltor dcss In this duobey s - W‘;Jv;sx‘ mewonr at that bird, Tom!" whis- tenq e nd could no lor 5 € like the “oice of a Dunlel i 2 - Wige it ki B o K ? . ke does sing sweet, don't he?" iss the y don’t it? “ : I think L. Perki e ‘Oh dear. oh dear, how can I give it e - will Dreak : Bomething aboat T might know all up! I've fed that bird and his mate HARNKS oy ey I am sure of it.” for years. He knows my volge. [ can 1 can’t. hel we or Well, I'm quly grateful, it's done. for call him down out of that tree. Many a ~They can b t ) what your Wife couidir't do, cheered night when you were away in the War us | tore the sign down they naile s ey} e < » . he sat close to my window and sang tne doop and DICK burned it upt: ‘ It takes a violen, softly all night. When I'd wake, I'd “But they will d Charlie. The Sh TP R g A o] hear him singin’ low like he was afrald i will sell it e R SO he'd wake somebedy. I'd sit down there e will never have hen our own if you will work the garden for by the window and cry for you and again.” g . -e e ¢ me, where 1've been Wwatering It the past dream of your comin’ home till he'd sing ~ Tharlle bounded to the door and showed > Yyou will be yoursel: by dihner me to sleep in the chair. And now welVe the preacher Love o Bis got to leave him. Oh Lord, my heart I8 ] have good news for you, Mrs ! wait That's about all we've got to broken! -1 cai’t see the way!’ . ton! I start to Bos night tq preach sat. - Tve Nha 2g Dhacy 1 150 nhihs She burled her face on Tom's shoulder two jays. 1 am no prospects for the next two v/~ and sbook with sobe =~ st face IUY Money there to & : o sh, husb. hopey, ., must face will not be too sure " e was at work in the garden when i LA trouble. We are used to It. must cheer v " . e Gaston suddenly ran through the €ngaged to be married to Hose Nagman TE Prano the ~st we could.” L E B R, R s e K as gate m:;;xmny:mu‘m face was red, his & gallant poor white from the high hill WAS THE “1t's all tight, bo e e L R L NS NI o co leuse on life! was €yes str 1 tears, ar s brea o . . A 3 » y - AR ot him through tears w g in gasps ik, and bl breata country st the foot of the mountains. friends to-night. You've saved my little to pay for this nigger government. Thit sight the pre . ctor, they've killed Nelse! Mama Ine a binck ol Cally teapoen out n gal. I want to shake hands with you and Eleven o'clock was the hour fixed for way to Bost ion being ci says piease come down to our Mousc as martingales with +od Tings, aouble gicehs bt A R L e e alem :::ro i Eathersa. Thers. \l‘r:“dn'l’;' ke A8 A r uickly ou can. o o P 'y o, 1 can’t think of what would 'a’ hap- - BYFamEe. Saare_ wwve o other, and still no w ne to the anx- is he dead, Charlf B e e fencd! TNow it ail Dight. | She's safe i WO °F e e omcn -present,. the ious Waiting w It was ohly He's most dead. I found him down net -l k{ ridle. Tom was Gci's banda” agent of the Freedman's Bureau and lay fixed for the s the 90005 1 . b not altogether pieased with his future ol k some of his henchmen v T i Bl A Y o hering In & gully, one leg son-in-law. He was too wild,\went to too The nexf. morning when Tom Camp call- ““ft hegan to inspect the place. Tim _the. She me to see r - 1\) there’s a big gash over his many frolics, danced too much, drank too ed at the parsonage to see the preacher gpoipy was present, dressed in a su ¢ wa '“‘I’ al, i hench £ e arm 8 beat to a felly, and one much whisky and was tco handy with a AU ST SRS O h SeEn broadeloth and & silk hat placed TormShdies to do R ™ S i E ere & over- . 8 5 e pu m in revolves ter he found him in bed. " hi = v the office to do A's - e was a the wagon, and hauled him to the hou: g : b 4 “Br. Durham is quite sick, Mr. Cam HIy, G IS L SMES-SenpUed seali: brother of the immortal “Hog" Scoggins was 10 increase the LT afraid he's dead now. Oh me!" The before you step . off with that young o COTPARY stationed in the town stood Lut he'll oe >om enla Mis. Durbamte. . molera e f5w echird. sentltmen,”™ who had repessented s AdiStnin ty cmbers from tbree to DO Lroke down and,choked with sobs. " buck,’ Tom gravely wariied his daughter before them. His face was in a broad ‘“Ihank you, ma'am.’ et o dat's er fine gyarden” sald a Tebe HeSrgme I « a Gay. It paséed with a ,, qun Gharlle, for the doctor, and Ill as he stroked her fair halr one Sunday STif and his eyes bloodshot with whisky, She took the old soldier by the hand p.gro standing near. & “Mr. Scoggins. I've sent for you to ask p e bor v e morning while she waited for Hose to es. 1€ brought his musket down on the floor and her voice choked as she sald. ote. 00§ (the - Duust™ sald Tim 1o oibons trom Boston T eauaat o Dot er #l-black, fath- 4 ¢ boy flew through the gate to the cort her to church. with a bang. “You have my heart’s deepest sympathy gtarting to the door. » m fam returns trom Boston. I expeet to get . ® ky from an eastern S\ hen house. “I have thought a hundred times, paw, . My frien’s, T's sorry ter disturb y in your awful sorrow."” Tom stood up in the doerway with the maney from him to pay the tax bill { tmmc in \hen tbe preacher reached Mrs. Gas- but what's the use? I love him. He can PUL I has orders ter séarch dis house. “it'll be all for the best, ma'am. The o dicet in his hand. v 3 an’t do it, m'um. They're er lot er ton’s, Aunt Eve was wiping the biood just twist fe 'round his little finger. I've . . Show your orders,’ said Tom hob- Lord gave and the Lord has'taken away. put your foot on that doorst tolks comin’ ter bid on the place.” 5 Speak e bawled, drawing TOF Nelse's mouth. ot to have him.” bling before him. T'%iil Btill say, biessed is the name of the 1 blow your brai doorstep and “But I tell you I'm going to ‘pay the himself great dig and hoid: D¢ Lawd hab mussy! My po' ole " ‘Tom Camp, you don't want to forget _ /Well dere one un ‘emt" hesald stil: Lord! : R S TU DR eoh YO Eabnoged ML v 4 eft ¥ s though he " an ot i hive & 8 you were not a saint when I stood up STINNINE as he cocked his gun and pre- 'l wish I had such faith.” She led Tom ““Ajn't the premises for sale, Mr. r\_\*”h‘"‘&""‘» 5 1 hl’!l‘fl ter be paid € » dese white “Dem LUnion uigu‘gg‘; lh{;’Eve?‘ dey Tth you one day,” cried his wife with a Sented it toward Tom, “En ef dat aint into the room where the prehacher‘luy. Camp?”* o Rl ao b er I'l erbleeged gem'men e ezposen dis bill? Ef 3 : y_say dey twinkle in her eye. dey’s fifteen mo’ stanin’ 'roun’ dis ‘““Why, what's this, preacher? A band- 3 . % el < y £ - et "dey des D% EWine ter kill him fur not fioin' ‘em, “That's a fact, ole woman,"’ griuned ; age over your ‘eve: locks like somebody by LR D Y family ain’t for inspection oIl guve Ur. Dubak Wil e the A Tom. Ay no use ter make a fuss. % 3 y in the head? . 2 = N 1t . e de m I've been afrald of it sighed the ~“You never give me a day's trouble Doyst’ o, e Weh. Bt 1 HOPAISE. IT1Da A1l o i, o el e Uil Sy T bl MG Ioe ] be the fust Wie Mve v P A e e e e o iionlle . “Hetote ‘Tam could\utter aviotherimesd HgHCES torpirow. You BEdan't: toll me * oWell 1 Ivin htte yet, apd dou't Lavscis in s county Senee U siles > sir, w dey’'s done hit. My wildest colts make the safest horses.’ ©Of Drotest six more .negroe troopers, avything that happened at your house. you forget it ’answered Tom with quiet g, s P s A0 % po' ole man. I wish I'd been better ter “Yes, that's so. It's'owing to who has 12Ughing and nudging _one another' I've heard the black hell-lit news. It will im. Lawd Jesus, help me now! the breaking of 'em,” thoughtfully an- Crowded into the room, Suddenly one of be all over this county by night and the t%‘.:rr':ssl:w;‘é"umaor’(h:v;ld,us‘:u:mninn :tlr\‘\md!l:l(r!: g‘:’:( ‘}'x.;;?“‘}ii Dotz oy G Eve knelt by the bed and laid her face swered Tom. them threw a bucket of water in the fire. town will be full of grim-visaged men : sstmaster, el against Nelse'w while (he tears rained I iike Hose. He's full of fun, but he'll Place, where a pine knot blazed, and two beiore many hours. Youc child has not. L5 voaded- e paried & Jevd fne srcand 1ot thréy Ugtes on. the smivaliaf each v ! down her back face % settle. down and make her a good hus- Others knocked out the candles. died in vam. A few things like this will eoener. To the crowd that stood near Tof”tell oot . m Ir author and the unt 4_;10. lhfl'myr 111103 be s0 sad,” sald band. There was a scuffle, the quick thud of te the trumpet of the God of our fathers he sald in a clear ringing voice as he d‘e Ay "‘T nothin® fur y he he preacher ope};x y His pulse is ° “Do you love him much, child?” asked heavy blows, and Hose Norman fell to that will call the sleeping manhood of gtood up in the doorway. % e e ’(".‘_Mgf""”" ,;“ the boy 'Ef ye great financlal measurgs made Sarenbo’ T Holcve ho hgs an iron con- her father. the floar senseless. A plercing scréam ‘the Amklo-SEXun race fto life -ageih. I ° orj M) the fitet nigger that crosses oo out the doorre at windaw FUl piteh oras B Thembrs e syres made wiitution. T believe he will pull through, “Well .enough to live and scrub and Iing from his bride as she was seized in must be up and about this afternoon to shat Hne.” Y he stenndedl hba re b Ahe e Hponcarbet- if there are no internal Injurles """ work for him and to @le for hin, I the arme of the negro who first appeared. Keep down ‘tie storm. ' It ix not-time for | Fhese wis no sitemipt to cross It They in' bt Durhem's hapdeiiaey ‘heyletter had o 3= - ! 3 11 recko g upidly bore her towar e door, it to break.” - & of ; i : A gt i i a ta sho nd pu the e mow. Mars John 1'fing er spell on | “All right. that settles it youre too Murrounded by fho six scoundrels who had - “Hut Sadhbac, Wit < Dippaned de il e il At ey MOGR T ymipetiug s oaiewa. w all the funds o . 4 » ose_and your accompdnied him. v the sebs of his wife i e " - §° oy b e fund, tallfosd of (hese: scoRndrel (&: the CRvaE e s aie s D o o A Vi Aimip ont-ogho:ouss, s & rieked her "Il tell you what happened,” ~crfed ‘was but one bidder, the Honorable Tim saw a great herd of negroes trampline for 2 hundred of the State s &t the head of the taxes and It will be our last night under -Help! Mrs. Durham, standing crect with: her Snelby. It was knocked down to Tim down her flowers. laughing, cracking . It Smbdeis T iar cos & be our last night under “Help! Help! Lord, have mercy!” greit dark eyes flashing with anger. for the sum of eighty-five dollars, t r swa e < R Nty S g goon found lagucs” L mo ootes. Marse Jonp.® (U O%P TO0f Well make the best of screamed the girl as they bore her away ““As he came home last night from a O it of (R e Iavy Whish 1o Suc Joite g swetwnet ST Byvshes b of TRkl Sasar Toe S St Ao I L o 5 Toward the wools, still laughing and yell. visit to the sick he was ambushed by a gree and his brigands had fixed. s T het enlie snd suvs Wi et e It was so fixed. On Wednesday night irg. &ang of negroes led by a white scoundrel, = Tim was not buying on his own account. sicnate flood of tears. She was roused